Number One or Number Ten?

 

At today's Toastmasters meeting we heard two great speeches. 



Rathan's Ice Breaker



One of our new members, Rathan, delivered his ice breaker speech today.  We heard about an adventure he had a number of years ago while riding his bicycle to work.  It turns out that a beautiful young woman ran into him with her car.  Rathan was only slightly hurt but his bike did not fair as well. 

He described how he downplayed his injuries to prevent the policeman at the scene from extorting the lady.  The story continues as this mystery woman drives Rathan and his damaged bike to a repair shop.  She also drove him home so he could change and then drove him back to work.  It turns out Rathan accepts a coffee date a week later with this lovely lady.  They ended up in a very expensive, high end restaurant where Rathan was unsure how he could pay the bill.  He tells us that this will be material for another adventure.  We can't wait. 

 How did the story end you ask.  Well this beautiful mystery lady turned out to become Rathan's wife and mother of his 2 children.  Well we don't know if Rathan was being stalked in this adventure but we do know he is an energetic story teller.  Speech number one complete, nine more to go.  Good luck Rathan, we all enjoyed your presentation.



Bonnie accepting her new CC Name Badge



Our next speaker was Bonnie.  She was completing her Competent Communicator manual with speech number ten.  She inspired us to consider random acts of kindness with examples and photos of people and events in her life.  Touching stories of her father reading to her, to stories of children she influenced while running the lunch program at school. 

Beautiful photos and a great powerful presentation brought this speech to life.  The interesting thing about this presentation is Bonnie weaved examples from her previous speeches into an effective message.  With a tittle of "Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something!", we were left with the belief that a single act of random kindness can certainly make a difference in someones life.

Speech number ten complete.  The sky is now the limit for Bonnie.

If you want to learn more about the adventures Rathan discovers or hear Bonnie's thought provoking presentations in the advanced communicator manual stop by at one of our meeting, Wednesday noon at Tetra Tech in Saskatoon Square.